They say they will talk me though the proving dead procedure, but to my mind there should be 5 not 4 isolator switches, two for DC, one for power into the grid, one for power out of the grid, and one for emergency power independent of the grid.
I am finding it hard to get my head around the displays,
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this is it seems reasonably accurate, but there is no feed out energy, we know how much we have used, how much we have exported, how much has gone into the battery, and how much solar generation, I would assume what we have used from grid is consumption - (Solar yield - [Feed in energy + Battery charge]) but not sure about this.
Because now using an immersion heater my consumption is up on what it use to be, the iboost is designed to use power only after the house and battery re-charge demand has been satisfied. But found it running at 9 pm, which it should not do, reading instructions it says you need 100 mm between the CT coils, but the tail from meter to henley block is only around 100 mm, so with the inverter coil hard against the henley block and the iboost half way between it and meter I now need to retest, but unless in bedroom when iboost turns on, how would I know it was running? In bedroom I can hear it singing when running.
The iboost+ fitted is not just a simple switch, it can regulate how much power goes into the water, so it often says 180 watt for example, if it was 3 kW then we would see on the display when it was running, but what I see is this
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so I know total house is using, but not how much to power immersion independent of rest of house.
Electric costs more than oil, so don't want to use electric from the grid, only excess solar. But unless I take the cover off the consumer unit, I can't put my clamp on jaws around just the immersion heater.
